In re the Estate Rodriguez

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bertram R. Gelfand, S.

Petitioner, by dint of being the guardian of the property of decedent’s and her nonmarital infant son, seeks letters of administration. Decedent’s mother opposes the application on the ground that since the provisions of EPTL 4-1.2 preclude the infant from inheriting from decedent in the absence of a court of competent jurisdiction having entered an order of filiation declaring decedent’s paternity of the infant, she, as *984the decedent’s sole distributee, is the only person interested in this estate and, therefore, is entitled to the letters of…